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ARE YOU WITH ME?
This feature gives an insight into the HIV & AIDS scenario in the state of Manipur in northeast India. It travels back into time into the beginnings of injecting drug use and the subsequent spread of the HIV virus. Following into present times, when awareness is much higher but the task to combat drug use, HIV & AIDS and the status of widows is formidable. In this context, the film puts a pioneering organization, the Manipur Network of Positive People, and its efforts in the community across the entire state into focus. The film is centred around people who tell the story of this difficult world in their own words.
[ Produced for DFID - PMO, India and Internews Europe ] |
| Duration: 38 minutes |
Format: HDV |
Language: English |
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JUNGLE DREAMS
A feature based on Chendru, a Bastar muria tribal who had acted in a Swedish film forty years ago. The present film studies the impact of the Swedish film on this simple tribal boy viz-a-viz his relationship with kinsmen and the changes in his life forty years later.
[ A ZDF (Germany) ] |
| Duration: 29 minutes |
Format: Betacam SP |
Language: German/English |
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THE BOTTOM LINE
The feature takes the viewer on a journey to remote villages in the states of Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan, where rural people are witnessing a dynamic socio-economic change. As a protagonist in the film says, “Slowly, the village is lighting up…and we will become human…we’ll educate our children…they will travel and learn customs and what’s happening in the world.”
[ Produced for The World Bank, India ] |
| Duration: 24 mts. |
Format: HDV |
Language: Language: English and Hindi versions |
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THE BISHNOIS
The Bishnois of Rajasthan in western India are one of the oldest ecologically-aware, practising environmentalists in India. Four of their 29 religious tenets are related to environmental beliefs.
[ Produced for ZDF (Meinolf Fritzen), Germany ] |
| Duration: 29 minutes |
Format: Beta SP |
Language: German/English |
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OF RHETORIC AND REALITY
For 86-year old Nanaji Deshmukh, the grotesque urban-rural divide in India bespeaks a lack of humanism. The film looks at some aspects of his campaign for rural self-reliance, which is poised for ISO certification.
[ Public Service Broadcasting Trust and ] |
| Duration: 29 mts. |
Format: Beta SP |
Language: English |
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OUR HAVENS
The feature deals with the structures of families in upper middle class metropolitan India. Three family units and a sociologist form the core of the film, through whom we can glimpse certain aspects of what makes families carry on in spite of the changing circumstances of modern life.
[ Public Service Broadcasting Trust and ] |
| Duration: 29 mts. |
Format: Beta SP |
Language: English |
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THE INVISIBLE ONE
An overview of the urban-slum girl child and the tribal girl child. The focus is on girls in the age-group of 8 - 12 years, the youngest victims of gender bias. The two programmes profile a girl child and her immediate group and community on whom she is totally dependent for her status.
[ Produced for National Network, Doordarshan, India ] |
| Duration: 29 mts. |
Format: U-Matic |
Language: English |
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THE SILENT ONE
An overview of the urban-slum girl child and the tribal girl child. The focus is on girls in the age-group of 8 - 12 years, the youngest victims of gender bias. The two programmes profile a girl child and her immediate group and community on whom she is totally dependent for her status.
[ National Network, Doordarshan, India ] |
| Duration: 29 mts. |
Format: U-matic |
Language: English |
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END OF THE TRAIL
The programme is about Himalayan shepherds who follow the cycle of transhumance. The family of this particular shepherd, (like others) has followed the same trail for many generations upto 14,000 ft. every summer. These ecologically-aware pastoralists now face grazing problems in winter due to increased cultivation and new forest- protection policies. Young shepherds are faced with difficult choices between traditional practices and the viability of survival.
[ Produced for the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, National Network, Doordarshan, India ] |
| Duration: 30 mts. |
Format: U-matic |
Language: English |
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AYURVEDA: The Science of Life
The relevance of the Ayurvedic system of medicine is introduced within the backdrop of increasing worlwide interest in indigenous medicine. The accessibility, simplicity and holistic aspect of Ayurveda is expressed through experts, patients and practising Ayurvedic doctors.
[ Produced for Transtel, Germany ] |
| Duration: 29 mts. |
Format: Beta SP |
Language: English |
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